Chapter 728. to authorize condemnation of land for sites of public buildings. and for other purposes
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CHAP. 728.— An Act to authorize condemnation of land for sites of public buildings. and for other purposes.August 1, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Land for public uses. That in every ease in which the Secretary of the Treasury or any other officer of the Government has been, or hereafter shall be. authorized to procure real estate for the erection of a public building or for other public uses he shall be, and hereby is. authorized to acquire the same for the United States by condemnation, tinder judicial process, wheneverCondemnation. in his opinion it is necessary or advantageous to the Government to do so, and the United States circuit or district courts of the district wherein such real estate is located, shall have jurisdiction of proceedingsJurisdiction to United States courts. for such condemnation, and it shall be the duty of the Attorney-General of the United States, upon every application of the Secretary of the Treasury, under this act, or such other officer, to cause proceedings to be commenced for condemnation, within thirty days from the receipt of the application at the Department of Justice.
Sec. 2. The practice, pleadings, forms and modes of proceedingProcedure. in causes arising under the provisions of this act shall conform, as near as may be, to the practice, pleadings, forms and proceedings existing at. the time in like causes in the courts of record of the State within which such circuit or district courts are held, any rule of the court to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, August 1, 1888.